Hot cross buns

Name: Hot cross buns
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 4 cups wheat flour; 6 tbs sugar; 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast; 1 large egg; 1/4 cup butter or margarine; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp cinnamon; 300 ml water; Orange peel; Raisins; Orange marmalade for glazing; 4 tbs wheat flour added into 2 tbsp water to make a thick paste

Lan Flor @cook_20627312

I like trying new things...so to celebrate Easter I decided to bake HCB!!

Lan Flor @cook_20627312

I like trying new things...so to celebrate Easter I decided to bake HCB!!

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Ingredients

25 mins

6 servings

4 cupswheat flour
6 tbssugar
2 1/4 tspinstant yeast
1large egg
1/4 cupbutter or margarine
1 tspsalt
1 tspcinnamon
300 mlwater
Orange peel
Raisins
Orange marmalade for glazing
4 tbswheat flour added into 2 tbsp water to make a thick paste

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Steps

25 mins

1

Pre- heat oven 375 degrees. Warm the water..
2

Meanwhile mix 2 tbsp sugar and yeast
3

Add warm water to yeast- sugar mixture..stir n let settle for 5 mins. Cover.
4

Meanwhile..mix the other dry ingredients...flour, 4 tbs sugar,salt, cinnamon,orange peel.
5

Add the butter and use fingertips to mix flour mixture to the butter.
6

Into the yeast mixture which should now have risen,add the egg and mix well.
7

Add yeast mixture into wheat flour and mix well. Knead the dough until no longer sticky.
8

Cover and leave for 1 hour in a warm place
9

After 1 hour, knead again and cut into small portions and shape into balls.
10

Cover and let rise again for 45 mins.
11

After 45 mins uncover and draw crosses using the wheat flour paste.
12

Bake for 20-25 mins. 375 degrees the first ten mins...then 350 degrees remaining 15 mins.